assassination

Central Intelligence Agency

...Ḥussein’s possession of weapons of mass destruction in the lead-up to the Iraq War. Policy makers also began to debate whether the executive order that prohibited the CIA from carrying out assassinations (signed in 1976 by President Gerald Ford) should be reversed.

Executive Order 11905

executive order issued February 19, 1976, by U.S. President Gerald Ford, which prohibited any member of the U.S. government from engaging or conspiring to engage in any political assassination anywhere in the world. Promulgated in the wake of revelations that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had attempted to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the 1960s, it was the first executive...